Compare and contrast any two philosophers regarding the nature of God and how we could come to know this nature.

What two habits of mind are required to understand Descartes’s Meditations, according to the author?
September 12, 2019
What kind of Foundation was Rene Descartes looking for upon which to build his theory of Knowledge?
September 12, 2019

Compare and contrast any two philosophers regarding the nature of God and how we could come to know this nature.

Question Description

You will prepare answers to two of the following questions.

1. Compare and contrast any two philosophers we have covered this term regarding the nature of God and how we could come to know this nature.

2. Compare and Contrast any two philosophers we have covered this term regarding what innate knowledge is and about what we have innate knowledge.

3. Compare and Contrast any two philosophers we have covered this term regarding the relationship between God and Morality/Ethics.

4. Compare and contrast any two philosophers we have covered this term regarding the reliability of self-knowledge, or the familiar, as a starting place for understanding the world and our place in it.

5. Compare and contrast any two philosophers we have covered this term regarding the nature of human beings.

the book we used are:

Plato, Five Dialogues 2nd Edition. G. M. A. Grube Trans. Hackett, 2002.

Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy. 2nd Edition. John Cottingham Trans. Ed. Cambridge UP, 1996.

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. J. C. A. Gaskin ed Oxford UP 2009

Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling Repition. Ed and Trans Edward V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton UP, 1983.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science. Bernard Williams Ed. Cambridge UP 2001